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Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

Article linked in the source reddit post :)

Also in turn links to the individual maps used.

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For example, it’s very reasonable to be concerned about the new Twitter data center that’s poisoning Memphis right now, and single out the LLM, grok, as a source of it. However, generating an image using locally run stable diffusion does literally nothing to contribute to this. Conversely, using Twitter without using grok absolutely contributes to the polluting Memphis. If we try to simply boycott AI entirely and nothing else, we still contribute to that data center. However, if we single out Twitter/X as a company, then we can actually have an effective boycott.

If your problem is the environmental cost of all data centers, and you single out AI as the source, but still continue to stream video (ie Netflix, YouTube, TikTok etc), use social media, etc, you are still contributing to the stuff that’s at least 90% of current datacenter output. I know this is news to people but data centers didn’t just. Suddenly become a problem post-AI.

People pointing this out are not being contrarian for no reason. Current anti-AI thinking has done literally zero for actually combatting the issues we need to care about, because a lot of these problems go beyond AI. This is the tech equivalent of banning straws.

The point of this isn’t to go “oh and yet you participate in society…interesting”. The point of this is to show how you need to be thinking systemically about these issues beyond the superficial shit you hear in op-eds and tweets, which by the way, frequently misreport the actual data/info regarding the situation.

Perhaps you have some favorite fics on AO3 that suddenly disappeared because the author deleted the work or deactivated. Here’s how to find and read those works again using the Wayback Machine.

To locate a deleted work using Wayback, first you need the Works number. This is most easily found if you remember the author’s user name. Type this format into the Wayback Machine search box: archiveofourown.org/users/AUTHOR'SNAME You will get crawl results, i.e. Saved 2 times between May 31, 2020 and January 25, 2021. Since I know when this author deactivated, I’m going to choose the first link.

This takes you to the author’s Dashboard. To get the Works number, click on the link to the Work you want to read. You will not be able to open the Work, but you will get the Works number. It is the 8 digit code after /works/ in the URL.

Using this code, go back to the Wayback search box and enter archiveofourown.org/works/11111111?view_full_work=true (the 11111111 is the Works number). You will see the entire work as posted on the crawl date.

animated the "It's okay not to smile" scene from chapter 4

Griffith literally gave Guts everything, family and meaning but claimed him as a property and when Guts wanted to seek his own path, Griffith [SPOILER] ruined his life with his own ego, went to prison and experienced torture, blamed it all on Guts, then activated behelith and sacrificed Guts, his friends and comrades to monsters, and r4ped Guts' ^girlfried and made Guts watch while his eye and an arm were torn apart, and when it was all over... Guts realized that his woman went insane, lost herself as a person,

🐴 500 days of Rivastraut 🥃

My mom keeps in insisting I go see a chiropractor for my joint pain. I don’t think it’s going to make a big difference but she’s says if I don’t go it must mean I don’t care about getting better.